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Unit 2: Texts and culture
Quick questions on Comparative analytical response: QCE English Unit 2 Year 11
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What is alternating shape?Show answer
Body 1 about Text A; Body 2 about Text B; Body 3 comparing. The shape describes each text in turn and reserves comparison for the close. The comparison is grafted on rather than driving the analysis.
What is integrated shape?Show answer
Each body paragraph contains anchors from both texts in dialogue. The structure performs the comparison at every paragraph.
What is alternating instead of integrated?Show answer
Reads as two summaries rather than a comparison.
What is generic comparative vocabulary?Show answer
"Both texts" without specifying the relationship.
What is plot summary in place of analysis?Show answer
Comparing what happens rather than how it is constructed.
What is forcing parallel structure where it does not fit?Show answer
Sometimes texts do not parallel cleanly; argue the asymmetry rather than force the parallelism.
What is drift from thesis?Show answer
A body paragraph that loses contact with the comparative claim.
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